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Struggle for Vicksburg 
Studio : Finley-Holiday Film Corp.
by Finley-Holiday Film Corp.
Brand : Finley-Holiday Film Corp.
Model : DV-35
Publisher : Finley-Holiday Film Corp.
Released : 2002
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 0739847700353
UPC : 739847700353
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 2 reviews)
List Price : $24.95
Our Price : $19.95
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DVD Extra - Interactive Menus & Chapter Search
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DVD Extra - Vicksburg quiz
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DVD Extra - Vicksburg Music Video
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DVD Extra - Salvage of the Gunboat Cairo - NPS historical film
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DVD Extra - Screen Saver & Internet Resources
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Blending superb photography of the park with authentic battlefield illustrations and life-like paintings from Civil War artist Mort Kunstler, this program lets the viewer relate Vicksburg's peaceful countryside with its wartime role in that bloody and brutal conflict. |
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At best, standard |
A workmanlike presentation of some of the very basic facts of the Siege. To my disappointment, no re-enactors were used.
I've yet to across a source that answers these questions that follow, so I don't want to imply my asking them suggests unique faults with this movie.
To what extent could the Fort of Vicksburg inhibit Union supply river traffic upstream and downstream (i.e., completely? 30% 70?)?
Realizing rivers were relatively efficient ways to transport supplies (vis-à-vis wagons and mules albeit I am not as certain as to the relative merits between the use of rivers and railroads), how critical was it to have "unrestricted" access to the ENTIRE river? (Recall, New Orleans was in Union hands.)
What would the effects have been - and the responses to - random/sporadic/varying placements of Rebel cannon along the long shoreline of the otherwise "unrestricted" river?
By only holding a non-besieged Vicksburg, did that allow the Rebels to effectively transfer supplies and troops across the Misssissippi from West to East?
Beginning in the summer of 1863, how much material and how many troops were effectively contained in the Western Confederacy and prohibited from moving East? Assuming any, how much of a difference might they have made and how? Louis J Sheehan
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A very good Vicksburg Campaign Documentary |
I've always wondered about this campaign. Ken Burns' Documentary only covered a small portion of it. This makes up for that however. Vicksburg was the "Key of the confederacy" as Lincoln put it.
There's a lot to learn from this documentary, the only drawback is sometimes the narrator gets muted out with the sounds of Cannon and gunfire in the background. |
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